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- digitalis comes from the foxglove plant and is given in a pill form, IV, or injected to treat heart conditions
- quinine comes from the bark of the cinchona tree, it controls fever, relives muscle spasm especially GI pain Belladonna and atropine are made from the poisonous nightshade plant and help relieve muscle spasm especially GI pain.
- morphine is made from opium poppy and is used for treating sever pain. It is addicting and only used if nothing else works.
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- health records were superstitious and called upon the gods to heal them, learned to identify certain diseases.
- the physicians were priests they learned how to treat disease and heal fractures, and learned the art of bloodletting with leeches.
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The Chinese were the first to use acupuncture, they used stone tools. This later because the advanced practice of modern day accupuncture
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They were the first to study the cause of disease and to determine that illnesses may have natural instead of spiritual causes. They were not allowed to dissect humans because of religious reasons. The oath of Hippocrates is the basis for todays medical ethnics.
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Romans learned from the Greeks that a sanitation system was very important. They brought clean water in to their city by waterways, built sewers to carry off waste, and built public baths with filtering systems.
Romans sent medical equipment and physicians with eir armies to care for hurt soldiers. This was the beginning of hospitals, public buildings for the sick to be healed were built. -
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The study of medicine was stopped for a period of 1,00 years because the church believed that life and death were in God’s hands.
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The primary treatment was prayer and herbal mixtures.
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Epidemics caused may deaths during this period, bubonic plague alone killed 60 million people.There are many other uncontrolled diseases and today these illnesses are not always life threatening because of vaccines and medications.
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There were many developments during this period. The building of university and medical schools for research, the acceptance of dissection of the body for study, and the development of publishing books to allow better access to knowledge for research were all things that happened during the rebirth.
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Studied and recorded anatomy of the body
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Discovered the fillopian tube
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Discovered the tube from you ear to your throat
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Able to describe the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart
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Invented the microscope
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The early pharmacies
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Invented the first bifocals and found colds could be passed from person to person
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Attended lectures in the classroom and laboratory but also observed patients
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Discovered oxygen
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Discovered a cure for small pox
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Invented the stethoscope
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Discovered the tiny microorganisms were everywhere -
Discovered that some microorganismscaused disease -
Learned that microorganisms cause infections
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He developed asepsis
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Discovered many disease-causing organisms -
Discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing organism's
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Discovered x-rays
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Helps with the pain of surgery, before doctors would use herbs, hashish, and alcohol to stop the pain of surgery.
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Found that penicillin killed some life-threatening bactiria.
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Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind
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Discovered sulfonamide compounds
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Discovered that a dead polio would cause immunity to poliomyelitis -
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The use of portable and handheld computers to aid in diagnosis, accurate record keeping, and research
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The ability to transport organs from a donor to a recipient
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The ability to reattach severed body parts
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Caring for the unborn fetus
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The possibility of eliminating disabling disease through genetic research